Corneliu Iatu

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University | UAIC · Department of Geography

This study aims to analyze the mayoral reelection rates in Romanian local elections between 1996 and 2016, a period marked by significant economic and political transitions. Given the post-communist context, understanding these dynamics is crucial for grasping Romania's evolving electoral behavior. In order to evaluate the dynamics of mayoral reele...

The multidisciplinary approach outlined in this paper aims to assess the correlation between geophysical and social vulnerability for disaster risk reduction. To achieve this, two multi-criteria methods based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques have been integrated to assess the risk to natural hazards in the North-East Development R...

Although the tourism sector has witnessed a gradual recovery during the last years from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still too soon to discuss about a full recovery, as territories have responded and adapted in diverse manners to the shock. As such, it is important to investigate the impact of the pandemic in different mom...

The COVID-19 pandemic, originating as a health crisis but quickly expanding to other social spheres, had significant and asymmetric impacts across Europe, which potentially undermine territorial cohesion. Much has been written about the overall impact of the pandemic on the underlying thematic and budgetary focus of European Union-level policies wi...

This chapter discusses the topic of tourism resilience with reference to the particular context of important urban tourist destinations in Romania. The main research questions addressed are as it follows: (1) How did tourism demand for urban destinations react in front of two different crises? and (2) Did particular factors have different influence...

The fundamentals contribution of multi-hazard assessment lies in its ability to guide and identify directions for territorial development, aiming to reduce vulnerability through the implementation of appropriate measures. In the present study, Multi-Criteria Decision Making supported by Geographic Information System was utilized to solve spatial pr...

The sustainable development of rural areas is one of the European Union's objectives. LEADER program contributes to its fulfillment by offering financial support to disadvantaged rural areas. The purpose of this paper is to assess the LEADER program's economic impact in the Romanian rural communities. Econometric methods of impact assessment were u...

Rezumat Una din problemnele de mare interes geografic este _i clasificarea a_ez rilor umane. O analiz preliminar pornind de la mai multe variabile socio-demografice asupra unui num r de 263 a_ez ri urbane i 803 a_ez ri rurale de talie mare certific prezen a unor ambiguit i în defin1rea statutului unora dintre acestea. Reteaua actual de a_ez ri urba...

La Covid-19 est venue bouleverser notre quotidien et les territoires ont dû s’adapter en conséquence pour faire face aux effets de cette pandémie. Le présent article s’intéresse aux réponses politiques locales apportées par les villes et les départements dans l’Union Européenne pour faire face aux effets socioéconomiques du confinement. À partir d’...

This article aims to explain how innovations in urban governance contribute to economic resilience of post-socialist regional metropoles, by retracing the path development process of the local governance systems in two Romanian cities - Timișoara and Cluj-Napoca. Firstly, the paper brings analytical cross-fertilization between urban governance stud...

Shelter and evacuation-route planning represents the core of safe and efficient flood management. The methodology detailed in the present study includes an analysis of the suitability of areas for evacuation points, as well as an assessment of the degree of accessibility of those points during evacuation scenarios in small mountainous drainage basi...

Tourism plays a vital role in many rural areas and has been proven a highly resilient sector following an unforeseen shock. Recent evidence points out its capacity to transfer resilient proprieties to the economic landscape of destinations. Yet, little is known about the way structural features of a destination impacts the tourism-induced resilienc...

The LEADER program is one of the European Union’s financing instruments dedicated to the development of the rural communities. The instrument was introduced in the Romanian rural territory in 2007, a territory characterised by a high level of local and regional economic inequalities. The main goal of the present research is to question whether the...

The European Atlas of Resilience is one of the main results of ReGrowEU project, supported by a grant financed by the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Romania. Designed in a methodologically flexible manner, the atlas aims at delivering a unique multi-dimensional, multi-shock and multi-level diagnosis of national and regional resilience for t...

REVUE ROUMAINE DE GEOGRAPHIE - A multi-criteria analysis of regional disparities in Romania (2000-2016). The analysis of regional disparities has been the subject of many articles of researche, in particular in relation to the EU Cohesion Policy. However, many studies analyse disparities only from the perspective of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Th...

During the last years, tourism studies witnessed an accelerated interest for inquiring stakeholder collaboration by means of Social Network Analysis. However, following a systematic literature review, we identified that little attention has been paid to the different types of relationships that compose a destination’s network and especially regardi...

Scope The sudden appearance and exponential development of severe forms of COVID-19 and the pressure induced on health care systems, have led almost all European governments to put in place – more or less strictly – measures to limit economic and social activities. For the first time in recent history, voluntary measures have generated an economic...

Collaboration in tourism is widely perceived as a solution for achieving success and for ensuring sustainability in tourist destinations. However, collaboration is a complex and dynamic process, and although there is a growing interest in understanding its mechanisms, much remains unexplored on the matter. The aim of this paper is to operationalise...

The sustainability of the human society is endangered by the global human-ecological crisis, which consists of many global problems that are closely related to each other. In this phenomenon, the global population explosion has a central role, because more people have a larger ecological footprint, a larger consumption, more intensive pollution, an...

Since the second half of the twentieth century, the big processes of globalization of the economy, coupled with the development of new technologies and the increase of the population, have led to the emergence of major environmental problems whose importance transcends beyond the limits of the countries, in a manner that we could say that they are...

The rural environment is a complex system in which the differences in development are evident both at the subnational and international level. The difficulties related to methodological analysis are due to such rural diversity and the partial lack of comparable indicators which lead to the development of objectives and indicators that respond to bo...

Either due to religious and spiritual motivations or to personal ones, religious pilgrimages have become increasingly popular during the last decades. The article proposes a study concerning the motivations of pilgrims who travel to Iasi every year in October to attend a religious event organized in the city. The main goal of this paper is to prese...

Urban transport is one of the most unsustainable activities in Romanian cities. Green and smart mobility solutions could help them in becoming more sustainable. However, it is generally acknowledged that successfully implementing green, smart and sustainable solutions depends highly on local stakeholders' engagement and public acceptance. Against t...

Spontaneous urban development, specific to East European cities in the post-socialist period, produces permanent land-use changes. The study aims at analyzing this phenomenon for the particular case of the North East Development Region of Romania. Although as a way of manifestation there are many similarities at regional level, the behavior of urba...

The potential role of tourism in enhancing a balanced territorial development is officially acknowledged by the EU. However, little is known regarding the extent to which tourism in Romania contributes or could contribute to reducing regional inequalities. The present study approaches the matter of the growth of tourism demand and supply in relatio...

La crise financière globale de 2008 a bouleversé l’ensemble de l’économie mondiale mais les mécanismes de propagation, ainsi que l’impact n’ont pas été neutres du point de vue spatial, car certains territoires ont réagi mieux que d’autres face à ce même défi. Notre contribution test l’hypothèse selon laquelle la nature du territoire est un facteur...

Rural tourism has been seen during the last decades as a means for economic development of sensitive localities, especially in rural areas. However, little research has been conducted on the sustainability of the development induced by tourism activities in rural areas, and even so, with contradictory results. Our paper investigated how tourism imp...

The paper examines the waste management issues in the villages annexed to administrative-territorial units of the Romanian cities which have been frequently neglected by urban waste operators. The lack of waste collection services in such peri-urban communities favored the illegal waste disposal practices particularly prior to EU accession. The ext...

The presence of World Heritage Sites has been frequently used as a mean of tourism promotion and increased attractiveness. However, previous studies showed contradictory results regarding the territorial impact of World Heritage Sites, and very few researchers discussed their impact in Eastern Europe. This paper examines how the presence of World H...

This article focuses on a specific dimension of environmental quality: land use and land cover, which experienced changes over time, having an important impact on biodiversity loss worldwide, causing soil and air pollution, altering local and regional hydrology. The main objective of this research was to review land use and land cover changes and t...

Le projet vise à développer une formation de type DUT (Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie) en ingénierie des Energies Renouvelables et à soutenir l'émergence de technopoles spécialisées dans les Energies Renouvelables. L'objectif est de développer des compétences permettant d'acquérir des connaissances de base sur la production d'électricité à pa...

This paper aims to provide a regionally integrated image of Botoșani County, by identifying base typologies concerning the administrative units inside the region it belongs. The analysis of the study focuses on the social and economic sectors aiming to underline the inequities from within. The state of the rural environment in region of Moldavia is...

All cities have an organic growth over time and our goal is to see in whose expense this expansion occcurs. Land-use changes indicate the urban penetration limits in rural space and the manifestation form of territorial evolution. In order to obtain a more accurate analysis, at local level, we chose to work at an adequate scale for the case study p...

Main debates concerning urban mobility in Romania are dominated by the necessity to define, adopt and implement sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMP). SUMPs are strategic instruments to move forward from the traditional way of managing spatial accessibility and transport issues (which is especially true for post-socialist cities) to a more integr...

Built on a hilly relief, the city of Yaoundé is exposed to flooding since three decades. They caused human, material and environmental damages. Efficient management of this phenomenon by public authorities should go through a proper control of variables contributing to this hazard. Through various GIS applications based on multi temporal maps and p...

The pressure exerted by towns and cities upon surrounding natural and agricultural environments is an acute problem facing present-day societies due to the serious effects that phenomena such as urban sprawl can have on the ecological balance of the area concerned. One of the ways in which this pressure manifests itself is when part of the urban po...

The pressure exerted by towns and cities upon surrounding natural and agricultural environments is an acute problem facing present-day societies due to the serious effects that phenomena such as urban sprawl can have on the ecological balance of the area concerned. One of the ways in which this pressure manifests itself is when part of the urban po...

Le développement territorial durable (DTD) est devenu aujourd'hui un référentiel incontournable de l'action, malgré l'imprécision conceptuelle qui entache encore souvent l'usage de ce terme. A partir de regards multiples et d'approches soit générales et théoriques, soit plus appliquées relatives à des terrains d'observation variés relevant de conte...

Dans la perspective de la 2eme phase du Schéma National d’Aménagement du Territoire sur la planification générale du pays pour l’horizon 2025, les pouvoirs publics ont compris que « la route pour le développement passe par le développement de la route ». Ils ont ainsi accordé un intérêt considérable à l’extension et la gestion des infrastructures r...

Dans la perspective de la 2eme phase du Schéma National d'Aménagement du Territoire sur la planification générale du pays pour l'horizon 2025, les pouvoirs publics ont compris que « la route pour le développement passe par le développement de la route ». Ils ont ainsi accordé un intérêt considérable à l'extension et la gestion des infrastructures r...

Providing the entire population with the same accessibility to services of general interest is among the priorities of EU policy. Among these services, those concerned with medical treatment occupy a special place due to their social and economic importance. The study raises the issue of modelling the population’s spatial accessibility to medical s...

The disappearance of the Communist regime marks the entry of Romanian cities into a new phase of urban development, characterized by the transition from socialist-type compact city, reliant on public transportation, to unorganised, dispersed and capitalist-type city, whose spatial sprawl is dependent on the existence of market economy, the degree o...

In former times, what is today acknowledged as “sustainable development”, was regarded by avoiding the waste of resources, by adopting a humble lifestyle, in which the intake was in complete balance with the rate of natural recovery; some practices were common sense, and did not require rigid laws enforced by the authorities. Ethnographic tourism,...

Most cities in Romania, marked by the fall of the Communist regime, are in the evolutionary stage called periurbanization. In Suceava City, this process is very well represented due to a spontaneous expansion ("urban sprawl"), characterized by a diffuse pattern, with many unused spaces interspered within the new residential areas. Periurbanization...

A Geospatial Analysis of the Relationship between Environmental Drivers and Vector-Borne Diseases. Human health is profoundly affected by weather and climate. Environmental health is becoming a major preoccupation on a worldwide scale; there is a close correlation between a population's state of health and the quality of its environment, considerin...

GROSEE project analyses the role of the three South-Eastern European countries capital cities (Athens, Bucharest and Sofia) as part of the European urban system and identifies the necessary actions to improve the cooperation among them. The project also performs an analysis of local and regional resources, social and economic structures, and an eva...

The economic purpose occupation of the rafting have at least several centuries old in Romania. The communist period had a negative role on this level occupations produced by breaking traditions, habits. Practiced only sporadically, this activity has important touristic meanings today, many tourists are willing to do this kind of tourism with the sp...

The study of spatial accessibilities has experienced an accelerated development during the past two decades, enhanced by the computer science development and by the storage of data in georeferenced format. As a result, great varieties of evaluation methods and indicators have emerged, and there have been attempts to determine the importance of the...

The study aims at using statistic and cartographic methods in order to point out the territorial disparities within an area. Therefore, the paper has as its main purpose the testing of two methods by using aggregated indicators in order to find out and compare the advantages/disadvantages of each of them. These indicators have the role of pointing...

The exaggerations of housing blocks during the Romanian communist regime were maintained by the growth of income for the middle class population. After 1989, this situation led to the movement of part of the urban population towards the outskirts of the city, a process doubled by the chaotic construction of individual houses. Larger distances betwe...

Financial allocation through cohesion policy can play an important role in territorial development at European Union level. However, it is clear that states have difficulties in attracting and using these funds. Based on existing literature, we aim to analyse the progress of Romania and to identify a number of factors: economic, social, administrat...

This study highlights forms of gender inequality in post-communist Romania, generated by an unsustainable political algorithm which marginalizes women and fails to use their potential, both in politics and in formal and informal resistance, and maintains women's traditional duties as a type of environmental injustice. Having as a starting point the...

The Romanian seaside, a magnet for Scandinavian tourists in the past, encounters nowadays difficulties in finding its own place in the regional context of the Black Sea. Despite stagnation in modernising tourism structures, during the months of July and August the coast is full of tourists. The main focus of this survey is to identify the raisons o...

Abstract We consider that the factors defining the local environment have impact on the economic growth and determine the existence of the regional disparities. To verify this hypothesis, we analyse, using the PCA method and the 3 Sigma rule, a set of variables for the 42 Romanian counties. The results obtained allow us to highlight the spatial dis...

Located at 217 km of the estuary of the Wouri, the city of Yaoundé is exposed to seismic risks, to mass movement and mainly to flood risks. From 1980 to 2008, 128 floods have been counted and caused important material damages and more than 70 deaths. The main goal of this paper is to show the role of climatic and human factors in the triggering and...